Prime of place this week goes to the Book Reading tag that’s been floating around the blogosphere. Some of the participants are Art who tagged me; Stephen, LO, Brad, Bil who I tagged.

Alan Hirsch tells you and I to watch out because many people have treated “Consumption as Spirituality.”

Tim Chester on “7 principles for planting organic churches.“

Jeremy Pryor on “The Tyranus Effect: Paul’s neglected strategy for city-wide discipleship.“

JR Woodward reviews “An Ecclesiology for a Late Modernity.”

ChurchRelevance on “7 Poor Communications Skills to Avoid,” and “4 Wild and Crazy Christmas Services (wow, that cost some bucks!)”

ThinkChristian talks about a recent article “Doing away with preaching.” The comment chain was lively on this one.

Scot Mcknight is in part five on his series on the Kingdom of God theology in the New Testament.

Art Boulet on “Spiritual Euthanasia and the Emerging Church.” This ones not getting the traffic it deserves…

Mark Batterson on “Ten Steps to Setting Goals.“

Where’s the love, ProvocativeChurch gives us his best of blog posts on “Giving first impressions.”

Dan Kimball, Martin Luther, and an Emerging Revolution.

The Just Life on a “Backwater Jesus.”

JollyBlogger asks “Do we need to be taught how to understand Scripture?“

Tia at Desiring God Blog says, “Listen if you want to be heard.” Right on…

9Marks asks us in this New Year to “Consider our ways.”

If you missed Darrin Patricks talks on the Emerging Churches Acts 29 has them in a combo, “Discerning your Missional Mileau.”

The NA Blog gets a new look.

Justin Buzzard covers Calvin Miller’s book on Preaching, here’s a little SanFran light for all you out there…

Soylent Green asks the question “A priority of Doctrine in Christian Living?“